When i was a child, i would be at wakes and funerals where a lot of people were crying, and — you could see the terror (or fear/ignorance) in their eyes — they had no clue about what death was. Thanks to a sloppy education where they were taught a lot of primitive, erroneous things, they were lost in what they experienced during a funeral. Interestingly, as one mentioned in prior posts, a lot of people assume that they are alive; they think that they are alive. However, because of years of indoctrination, miseducation, and run-of-the-mill, stale conditioning, they may not be fully alive.

It may be that a very alive mind often goes far beyond the superficiality of conditioned, secondhand, programmed thinking. That “being beyond” is a dying — a psychological dying — to the stale, virtual, secondhand process of conditioned thinking. That dying is real living, and then living and dying are not two separate things. That dying is a blessing, and because the thoughts that were transcended were fragmentary, divisive, and full of hollow symbolism, the mind (then) is beyond their indifferent, cadaverous, mechanical fabrication. All thoughts are fragmentary, virtual symbols, and to perceive deeply without the burden of dead, superficial, divisive, stale, fragmentary symbols is to love. Such love can only fully flower when artificial, fragmentary words are transcended. Fragmentation cannot love. Only a holistic (i.e., whole) mind is the intelligence that is existant as real love. A mind full of conflict and fragmentary symbols — constituted of stale words — cannot fully love.

So in that dying is true living… and that living (beyond fragmentation) is holistic, and it truly is love in the deepest sense. You can read this intellectually — not deeply — and trot off to continue to react as you always have… and be stuck in traditions and beliefs like you always have. That is what “mostpeople” will do. Thank goodness there exist minds beyond “mostpeople.”